Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

- Gary Hume

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

- Robert Indiana

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

- Robert Rauschenberg

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

- Peter Doig

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

- LeRoy Neiman

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

- John Dyer

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

- Jeff Koons

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

- Georges Seurat

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

- Albert Camus

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

- Faith Ringgold

My paintings are rubbish.

- David Bailey

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

- Cecily Brown

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

- Cy Twombly

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

- Cy Twombly

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

- Chuck Close

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

- Banksy

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

- Alan Bean

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

- Arthur Smith